Featuring YOUR brilliant Tuff Tray ideas - share your best Tuff Trays for a chance to win!
Every Tuesday we will feature 3 of our favourite tuff trays on this page and on our Instagram profile!
A Tuff Tray is an incredibly creative and invaluable tool for ANY classroom!
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Getting involved is SIMPLE! Just use the following hash tags on Instagram, your tuff tray ideas will magically appear in the gallery below!
Our Supertatoes are very apeeling wouldn’t you agree? 🤦🏻♀️😆🥔 #supertato #tufftraytuesday #tuffytuesdays
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The final tuff tray for this weeks #TuffyTuesdays is this fish exploration tray by @concepteducationtdn 🐠 🐟
We love this tray that targets fine motor, early phonics, understanding the world, number, communication and language development. Lots of fun to be had in this tray! ⭐
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Next up for week 5 of #TuffyTuesdays is this really simple but effective bug box tuff tray by @tufftraydays 🐜 🐞
A great counting and sorting activity that is quick to set up with little props, a brilliant maths activity! 💛
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Our first tuff tray for week 5 of #TuffyTuesdays is this brilliant STEM Balloon Cup Shooters by @littletufftrayideas 🎈
This tuff tray is great for exploring lots of things, including force, distance, speed, estimation and comparisons. A really simple but exciting tuff tray activity! ...💛
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It's Tuff Tray Tuesday!
We use our tuff trays in many various ways such as; role play, small world, sensory, mark making, dying rice and scooping, filling and pouring
Check out these fabulous tuff tray ideas from our Grasshopper's class.
#TuffyTuesdays with ...tpetuk
Do you have a tuff tray?
How do you use yours?
For your child to join in the fun, please contact: natalie@ideaelc.ae or call 8004332352
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Sunshine ☀️ 💕 #tuffytuesdays #tufftrayideas #tufftray #toddlerlife #toddlersofinstagram
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Mini beast fun ! 👍🏻🥰
This was one of my favourite tuff tray activities as it started off so simple and I asked my daughter to help me build it up .
🍄I asked her what ...we needed for the ground and she chose the grass cut offs and she said we need lots of leaves on the floor because insects like leaves and it’s autumn time 🍁🍂🍁🍂
🐞🐝🪱🐛 We added the insects and mini beasts we had and discussed what they were . And then we added her magnifying glass , viewing glass pot , and tweezers .
This activity kept going and going and expanding and developing . We remembered we had some flash cards of some bugs and added them , we found so many books around the house that were bug related and we even found a ladybird game from orchardtoys which she loved (see next post ) , we played matching pairs with our own beetle cards , and we did counting plates with the bugs .
We watched ‘A Bugs life ‘ and we read some stories together then we acted out A bugs life -the grasshopper invasion scene .
This was one of those days where you feel like you absolutely smashed it and the kids loved it and they played for ages and kept adapting it all to their interests .
#tufftrayfun #tufftrayideas #tufftrayactivities #abugslife #orchardtoys #ladybirdcounting #countthebugs #minibeasttufftray #minibeastexploration #myminiadventurers #tuffytuesdays #tuffytuesdays
❄️🧊🐻❄️Arctic Tuff tray 🐻❄️🧊❄️💙 or 🧊 ⛸ Arctic Peppa skating rink adventure
This was so popular with my two kids , so much so they wanted it for days .
I was so lucky with the weather on this one .
❄️ I just left the tray on ...our outdoor dining set overnight filled with water and white paint and gave it a swirl around before I left it
❄️ Then left it overnight to freeze , it was as simple as that (weather dependent obviously -Baltic English weather definitely a bonus 😂👌🏻) .
❄️In the morning I added blocks of ice I found in buckets and toys around the garden to make the ice bergs -this wasn’t planned but worked perfectly .
❄️ And we added our Peppa pig winter characters which we set in muffin trays in the freezer overnight or our polar animals
#tufftrayideas #tufftray #tufftrayplay #tufftrayactivities #tufftrayinspiration -#arctictufftray #polarexploration #peppapigiceskating #iceskatingtufftray #tuffytuesdays
✋🏻👌🏻👆🏻Fine Motor Skills 👌🏻👆🏻✋🏻
Fine motor skills are so important as they involve and strengthen the muscles that control the hand, fingers, and thumb. This can help children in so many ways - with their writing , drawing , and with daily tasks like ...zipping up coats etc
I put a range of fine motor Skill activities out for them to experiment with and I watched them to see how well they did and which they enjoyed the most . We will develop each activity over the weekend and play with one at a time to develop each type of muscle movement -pinching , tweezing , squeezing , pulling , pushing .
The activities i have put out involve :
⭐️Threading buttons and stacking buttons
⭐️Threading pipe cleaners through a colander
⭐️Lacing and threading beads on to the hedgehog
⭐️Lacing fruit and vegetables , numbers , letters and animals onto string
⭐️Using tweezers to place Pom pom in an ice cube tray - I will also add the wooden lacing balls for my daughter so it gives her more of a challenge
⭐️Using a pipette to add droplets of coloured water to support blocks
#tufftrayinspiration #tufftrayideas #tufftrayplay #finemotorskills #finemotoractivity #threadingandlacing #tuffytuesdays
😎that Friday feeling😎
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Have a good weekend everyone
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🌈🎈Rainbow Iced Balloons 🎈🌈
This was a great activity which I’ve seen on Pinterest for years and always wanted to try it . My kids love water and snow and exploring these types of activities .
What we did ...
⭐️We filled balloons with food colouring and ...water
⭐️We tied them up and put them in the freezer overnight however I left them in an extra day just to be sure .
⭐️We removed the balloons and observed the ice balloons - my daughter was a part of the whole process -filling with food colouring , adding water , undoing the balloons etc
⭐️ I added scoops , spoons , ladles , jugs and pipettes and the children experimented with adding sugar , salt , cold water and warm water to see which would make it melt quicker .
⭐️ I then decided to bring out some vinegar , bicarbonate of soda and washing up liquid so my daughter could experiment further .
This was a great activity to explore some science concepts with them.
#tuffspotactivities #tufftrayideas #tufftrayplay #tufftrayinspiration #lovebrightcolours #rainbowtufftray #loverainbows #mummycreations #sharingideas #tufftrayfun #frozenplay #iceballoons #startingscienceyoung #exploringnaturewithchildren #tuffytuesdays
⭐️🌈R•A•I•N•B•O•W•S🌈⭐️
This is an activity we did a couple of weeks ago and I absolutely loved this one - I love the bright colours - I love anything rainbow themed and the kids loved the first time playing with dyed rice .
I added spoons , scoops , ...bowls , ladles , sieves , spatula , cups and everything else in the house it seems . 🤦🏻♀️😂
It took my two literally about 5 seconds to take it from the 1st picture to the last picture but they loved it and that’s all that matters .
And on a plus side, the rainbow rice looked so pretty once it was all mixed up .
Definitely now a favourite in our house !
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#tuffspotactivities #tufftrayideas #tufftrayplay #tufftrayinspiration #lovebrightcolours #rainbowtufftray #loverainbows #mummycreations #sharingideas #tufftrayfun #tuffytuesdays
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